Porous organic cages (POCs) are a relatively new class of low-density crystalline materials
that have emerged as a versatile platform for investigating molecular recognition, gas …

Electrolytes that can ensure the movement of ions and regulate interfacial chemistries for
fast mass and charge transfer are essential in many types of electrochemical energy storage …

Cage compounds offer unique binding pockets similar to enzyme-binding sites, which can
be customized in terms of size, shape, and functional groups to point toward the cavity and …

The field of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) has been incorrectly believed to be purely
crystalline. However, non-crystalline MOFs (amorphous MOFs, MOF liquids, and MOF …

Since their conception, ionic liquids (ILs) have been investigated for an extensive range of
applications including in solvent chemistry, catalysis, and electrochemistry. This is due to …

Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) are a unique class of materials that combine
extended π-conjugation with a permanently microporous skeleton. Since their discovery in …

Separation technology is central to industries as diverse as petroleum, pharmaceuticals,
mining and life sciences. Metal–organic cages, a class of molecular containers formed via …

Membranes with high selectivity offer an attractive route to molecular separations, where
technologies such as distillation and chromatography are energy intensive. However, it …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of porous materials with immense chemical
tunability derived from their organic and inorganic building blocks. Presynthetic approaches …

Porous materials contain regions of empty space into which guest molecules can be
selectively adsorbed and sometimes chemically transformed. This has made them useful in …